Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.