Speech is civilization itself.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!