One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

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.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.