Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.