We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Man is something to be surpassed.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!