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.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.