A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

And to invoke the inestimable authority of Zarathustra: Zarathustra goes as far as to confess, 'I would only believe in a god who knew how to dance...

May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it.

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

The more one liberated oneself from the dogmas, the more one sought as it were a justification of this liberation in a cult of philanthropy.

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.... But Heraclitus will always be right in this, that being is an empty fiction. The ‘apparent' world is the only one: the ‘real' world has only been lyingly added...

Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.