Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it