Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

But every one belongs to every one else

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.