“The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is a queen, infinitely fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.”

“Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. ”

“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”

“A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.”

“Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.”

“Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.”

“But the passion of jealousy cannot exist without the passion of love, and is like its parent, creative, impetuous, and credulous.”

“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”

“There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.”