“[...] let us go with all our "devils" to the help of our "god"!”

“We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.”

“I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think! ”

“Our ancestors pay the price for who we are”

“Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.”

“Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.”

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”