Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

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