To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.