"Why I Am a Destiny"

"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous-- a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.-- Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of religion-- religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.-- I want no "believers;" I think I am too malicious to believe in myself; I never speak to the masses.-- I have a terrible fear that one day I will be pronounced holy: you will guess why I publish this book before; it shall prevent people from doing mischief with me."

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: "Why I Am a Destiny"