Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

Beauty would save the world.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.