I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

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

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.