Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.