Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.

To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.

I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.

Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.

Life is all about flexibility”.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

I love a good non sequitur.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.