Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.