Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

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.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

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

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.