The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.