Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.