When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

Time is that in which all things pass away.