Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.