If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Imagination decides everything.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.