"The aesthetic is the immediate, the ethical is the choice, the religious is the infinite passion of inwardness."

"Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don't hang yourse…"

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing at all."

"The aesthetic individual is the one who lives in the moment, for the moment, and with the moment."

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth— look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intende…"