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.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

The Antichrist, Section 7

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.