You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself