If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.