“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.”

“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

“For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessit...”

“I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.”

“As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.”

“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”

“The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.”

“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

“Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.”

“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a st...”

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”