Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

If youth knew; if age could.