While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.