Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.