Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.