You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.