If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.