"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."

Bataille

"Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire."

Bataille

"Zarathustra never abandoned the watchword of not serving an end, because, as he knew, ends pluck off the wings we fly with."

Bataille

"True life is not just the life which is, but also the life which ought to be."
— Gentile

The master ought to be temperamental.

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles"

With this device, Machiavelli declared that man is the measure of all things.

"Error (belief) is not blindness; error is cowardice."

Nietzsche

“I suddenly woke up in the midst of this dream, but only to the consciousness that I am dreaming and that I must go on dreaming lest I perish.”

Nietzsche