The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.