The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

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---

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.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

At heart I am a warrior.