All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Those who create are hard of heart.

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.