Children: a torment and nothing more.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.