The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.