One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

We are gods with anuses.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

Love is the problem of an animal.

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.