You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.