A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.