A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
Gilles DeleuzeEvaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
Gilles DeleuzeWhen 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.
Gilles Deleuze