You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

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.

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

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