Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.

Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest. But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a final number? Then how can you speak of a final revolution? There is no final one. Revolutions are infinite.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")