Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things