Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.