In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.