Status Updates From Nietzsche: A Complete Intro...

"If, before and after every action, you were to ask, ‘Do you want this action to occur again and again for all eternity?’ and you could answer in the joyful affirmative, you are exercising the will to power in a positive manner. The weak look to the next life for hope, whereas the strong look to this life."

"Schopenhauer: under the conscious intellect is the unconscious Will, which is a striving, persistent force. On appearance it may seem that the intellect drives the Will, but it is, in fact, the other way round. When you desire something it is not because you have found a good reason to desire it, but, rather, that you desire something first and then establish reasons to cloak those desires."

True indeed!

"Nietzsche’s university professor considered him to be the finest student he had seen in 40 years. Consequently, Nietzsche was awarded his doctorate without examination and was recommended for a chair in classical philology at Basel University in 1869. At the age of 24, Nietzsche was already a university professor."

Impressive.

"...although he did have a mental breakdown in 1889 from which he was never to recover, there is no reason to suppose that any of his writing previous to this is the product of an insane man: a genius and unconventional thinker, yes, but a madman, no."