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

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.