There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.