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

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

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

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.