The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.