I am no man, I am dynamite. I am a bringer of glad tidings like no one before me.
I am the philosopher with the hammer.
There are more idols than realities in the world. This little essay is a great declaration of war regarding the sounding out of idols, not just idols of the age, but eternal idols, which are here touched with a hammer like a tuning fork: there are no idols that are older, more assured, more puffed-up – and none more hollow.
I am the first immoralist. This calling follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. Moral and religious judgments are based on realities that do not exist. There is no such thing as moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.