It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness