One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

Woman was God's second mistake.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.