Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.
The melancholia of everything completed!
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!