"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.