Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.