I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us

And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.