The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

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.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.