This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.