Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.