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

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.