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

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.