Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.