The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite |
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. |
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. |
The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society. |
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. |
The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. |
The last Christian died on the cross |
The lie is a condition of life. |
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters |
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. |
The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solemn vows. |
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. |
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. |
The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself |
The man who has renounced war has renounced a grand life. |