It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.