It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.