Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.