As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.