The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.