Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

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.

Good drama must be drastic.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

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.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.