It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.