The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.