Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.