Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.