Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

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.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

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