Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.