Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.