We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.