Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

All truths are bloody truths to me.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.