Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.