An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Pity makes suffering contagious.