The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.