Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.