Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!