The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.