When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.