One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.