A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

Religions get lost as people do.

One reads in order to ask questions