One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.