Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.