I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.