People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

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

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.