However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.