Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.