I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.