Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

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.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.