A word too much always defeats its purpose.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

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

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.