The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.