To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

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

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.