The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.