After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).