Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.