Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.