History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.