What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.