Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.