What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .