Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

The Gay Science, section 108

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.