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

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside