[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.