The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.