To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.