Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.