I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

We can destroy only as creators