Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.