On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.