"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."

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

"When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever."

"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

"Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."