We ought to face our destiny with courage.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.