There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

Yes, life is a woman!

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.