The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.