The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.