She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.