Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.