Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

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.