Source: Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
“An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally.”
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Die Welt (1909); also in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations (1985) by Joseph L. Baron.
Source: 1930s, A Dynamic Theory of Personality, 1935, p. 24.
“Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 16
“The mechanical mind has a passion for control — of everything except itself.”
Revolt Against Mechanism (1933).
Context: The mechanical mind has a passion for control — of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.
“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
Book 1, sec. 55 (10 June 1887) http://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche_the_will_to_power/the_will_to_power_book_I.htm
The Will to Power (1888)
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
