Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.