For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.