If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.