If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.