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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented ...more

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They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, no...more

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Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was...more

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The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them ...more

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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hat...more

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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a...more

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This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be ...more

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The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

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Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spi...more

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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest...more

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The satyr, as the Dionysiac chorist, dwells in a reality sanctioned by myth and ritual. That tragedy should begin with him, that the Dionysiac wisdom ...more

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New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given t...more

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however lit...more

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What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strang...more

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd belie...more