The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.