Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Christmas is the alcoholidays

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.