Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.