“Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happyConscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.”

“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”

“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believ...”

“The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.”

“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses...”

“Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature.- Yes; it's a funny habit.- No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, howe...”

“Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.”

“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the m...”

“Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.”