I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.