It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.