Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.