The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

No great thing happens suddenly.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.