“Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...”

“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.”

“And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.”

“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”

“Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it.”

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”