Give up the tyranny of female charm.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.