The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.