What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.