History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one