When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths – they haven’t any.
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.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Woman was God’s second mistake.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.