Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.