Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

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

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.