Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.