When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you