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

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.