Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.