Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Success has always been a great liar.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.