Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.