"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

The color of truth is gray.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.