One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.