The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

This - is now my way, - where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me 'the way.' For the way - it doth not exist!

Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.