That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Certitude drives people mad.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.