To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.

A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness