Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Being gifted needs courage.

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.