If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

Reason is the slave of passion.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.