Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

May new sufferings torment your soul.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.