Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".