The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.