Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.