God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

Become who you are!

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.