Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.