For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Those who create are hard of heart.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.