Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

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.

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

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

Man is the cruelest animal.

Man is more ape than many of the apes