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

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness