Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.