The pure soul is a pure lie.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.