What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

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

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.