If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

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

If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.