In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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