In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.