The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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