… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.