Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.

To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.