I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.