One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.