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

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.