Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Fear first created the gods.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.