There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?