It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.