“The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.”

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.

The country doesn’t deserve anything less than success from us. Let us aim for success.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.