Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.