Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.