The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Faith is the path of least resistance.