“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”

“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”

“It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong, but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table.”

“Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.”

“People with menial jobs conjure up what Nietzsche calls a background world, forcing themselves to believe in an earthly or heavenly paradise. Their mental Eden is as seductive as their job is repugnant.”

“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”