I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

'The conventional mind is at best a petty piece of machinery. It is oyster-like in its functioning, or, perhaps better, clam-like. It has its little siphon of …

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

'Parents are frequently inclined, because of a time-flattered sense of security, to take their children for granted. Nothing ever has happened, so nothing ever…

It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you …

There is a curse on this house.

The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satis…