Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.