Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.

I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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

Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.