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

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.