We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

It is a crime to despair. We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.