When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?