“Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.”

“Jesus Christ, with His divine understanding of every understanding of our human nature, understood that not all men were called to the religious life, that by far the vast majority were forced to live in the world, and, to a certain extent, for the world.”

“To consider freedom as directly dependent on the number of man’s requirements and the extent of their immediate satisfaction shows a twisted understanding of human nature, for such an interpretation only breeds in men a multitude of senseless, stupid desires and habits and endless preposterous inventions.”

“Anyone as stupidly brave as Atsumori is not going to understand KenichiI was not stupid. Odds were that I would have drowned; I was in full armor.”

“Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.”

“...men lived and died all the time by the peculiarities of their soul, which they could never expect one another to understand.”