One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.