The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

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

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

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.