The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

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

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.