Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.