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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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Success has always been a great liar.

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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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