I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.