Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.

The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

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