My standpoint is armed neutrality.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

Sleeping is the height of genius

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.