What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.