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.

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

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.