...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie