To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.