Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

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

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.