Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.