To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.