Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.