In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

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

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.