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

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved