If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.