The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.