Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.