I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.