Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.