The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.