The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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

Fear is the mother of morality.