In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

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

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.