The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.