Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.