We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

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.

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.