One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.