The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.