Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.