Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Certitude drives people mad.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

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