Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

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.