All words are prejudices.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.