“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play”

“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”

“‎The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.”

“In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!”

“In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play.”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---”

“The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”