Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.