I assess the power of a will by how much resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor too.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Stupid as a man say the women: cowardly as a woman say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Of all that is written I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Love matches so called have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love and keep modest as a giver.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love like the cat?
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Regarding life the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
The lie is a condition of life.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity for instance.
Judgments value judgments concerning life for or against can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Without music life would be a mistake.
