Life and Existence

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?