So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

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

Civilization is sterilization.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.