If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Don't let them tell us stories.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.