What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.