Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---