The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.