No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.