There is no love that is not an echo.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.