it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?