Convictions are prisons.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Man must become better and more evil.