Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".