The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

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.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.