When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

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

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

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.

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

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.