The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
