Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.