The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV

It is a matter of mere experience that change never ceases: at bottom we have not the smallest grounds for assuming that any one particular change must follow upon any other. On...

_The danger of modesty._ To adapt ourselves too early to duties, societies, and daily schemes of work in which accident may have placed us, at a time when neither our powers nor...

The idea of punishment ought to be reduced to the concept of the suppression of revolt, a weapon against the vanquished (by means of long or short terms of imprisonment). But pu...

(2) _Fasting:_--In every sense--even as a means of maintaining the capacity for taking pleasure in all good things (for instance, to give up reading for a while, to hear no musi...

What a host of things can be accomplished by the state of intoxication which is called by the name of love, and which is something else besides love!--And yet everybody has his...

_(a)_ The Method of Investigation _(b)_ The Starting-Point of Epistemology _(c)_ The Belief in the "Ego." Subject _(d)_ Biology of the Instinct of Knowledge. Perspectivity _(e)_...

The most-fundamental--and most primeval activity of a protoplasm cannot be ascribed to a will to self-preservation, for it absorbs an amount of material which is absurdly out of...

In the case of such an extreme movement, both in tempo and in means, as characterises our civilisation, man's ballast is shifted. Those men whose worth is greatest, and whose mi...

--We are convinced that we only have duties to our equals, to others we do as we think best: we know that justice is only to be expected among equals (alas! this will not be rea...

The individual is something quite _new,_ and capable of _creating new things._ He is something absolute, and all his actions are quite his own. The individual in the end has to...

We ought to have the courage to become, conscious, and to affirm all that which has been _attained_--to get rid of the humdrum character of old valuations, which makes us unwort...

_Thirdly:_ The procedures of one art are transferred to the realm of another; the object of art is confounded with that of science, with that of the Church, or with that of the...

Has anybody ever been able to testify to a _force!_ No, but to _effects,_ translated into a completely strange language. Regularity in sequence has so spoilt us, _that we no lon...

_(a)_ A man should not be valued according to isolated acts. _Epidermal actions._ Nothing is more rare than a _personal_ act. Class, rank, race, environment, accident--all these...

The whole apparatus of knowledge is an abstracting and simplifying apparatus--not directed at knowledge, but at the _appropriation_ of things: "end" and "means" are as remote fr...

Our knowledge has become scientific to the extent in which it has been able to make use of number and measure. It might be worth while to try and see whether a scientific order...

The value of all _valuing._--My desire would be to see the agent once more identified with the action, after action has been deprived of all meaning by having been separated in...

At the same time _unbelief:_ Reduction. In what way does it acquire a _new value,_ if a real world does not exist at all (by this means the capacity of valuing, which hitherto h...

The idea that a sort of adequate relation exists between _subject_ and _object,_ that the object is something which _when seen from inside_ would be a subject, is a well-meant i...

_Concerning the future. Against the romanticism of great passion._--We must understand how a certain modicum of coldness, lucidity, and hardness is inseparable from all classica...

We must be on our guard against explaining _finality_ by the spirit: there is absolutely no reason whatever for ascribing to spirit the peculiar power of organising and systemat...

An artist cannot endure reality; he turns away or back from it: his earnest opinion is that the worth of a thing consists in that nebulous residue of it which one derives from c...

A humanitarian God cannot be _demonstrated_ from the world that is known to us: so much are ye driven and forced to conclude to-day. But what conclusion do ye draw from this? "H...

(6) And the result was: what had been done? A ban had been placed on the strongest, the most natural, yea, the only genuine impulses, henceforward, in order that an action might...

_To combat determinism and teleology._--From the fact that something happens regularly, and that its occurrence may be reckoned upon, it does not follow that it happens _necessa...

If the universe had a goal, that goal would have been reached by now. If any sort of unforeseen final state existed, that state also would have! been reached. If it were capable...