A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.