Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. The Art Of War

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature -- is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned. Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality