We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.