"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

Love, too, has to be learned.

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

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.