What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.