All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

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

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!