Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.