War is the supreme form of prestige.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.