There is nothing new in art except talent.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.