The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime -- it even presupposes it.

When I think of women, it is their hair which first comes to my mind. The very idea of womanhood is a storm of hair. . . .

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night

A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrinks from other actions, he transports the order of which he is the physiological representative into his relations with other human beings and with things. In a formula: his virtue is the consequence of his happiness…Everything good is instinct—and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.