Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!