We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.