Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

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!

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.