The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.