Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.