The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.