We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.