Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.