There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

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

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.