He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!