We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.