The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.