It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.