Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .