Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.