Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

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