He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.