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.

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

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.