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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, tran...more

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He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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I love brief habits and consider them an inestimable means for getting to know many things…My nature is designed entirely for brief habits…I always be...more

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Human nature has nevertheless been changed by the ever new appearance of these teachers of the purpose of existence: It now has one additional need—th...more

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Every word is a prejudice.

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of t...more

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate wor...more

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My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head wh...more

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Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the e...more

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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

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We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparen...more