He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

The Gay Science, section 108

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.