I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.