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

The woman who loves always smells good.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

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.

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.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

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.