Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.