The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.