If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

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.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.