Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.