Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.