We are all afraid of the truth.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.