The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.