There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.