His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Sleep is no mean art.

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.