Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.