To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.