The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.