Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.
Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution – it is called pregnancy.
Every truth is simple — Is that not doubly a lie?
Every nation, every individual, has unpleasant and even dangerous qualities.
Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man.
Either one does not dream at all, or one dreams in an interesting manner. One must learn to be awake in the same fashion: — either not at all, or in an interesting manner.
Egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on earth as a raven inspirited by a faint scent of carrion?
Do ever what ye will — but first be such as CAN WILL.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Danger which first teaches us to know our resources, our virtues, our shield and sword, our genius — which compels us to be strong…
Culture is liberation, the removal of all the weeds, rubble and vermin that want to attack the tender buds of the plant.
