Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

To have and to want more that is life.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.