He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Children: a torment and nothing more.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.