That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.