I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

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.

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

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.