“I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.”

“They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!”

“This is my way, what is your way? The way doesn't exist.”

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”

“The anthropological criminologists tell us that the typical criminal is ugly: monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo [monstrous in appearance, monstrous in spirit].”

“It takes chaos to give birth to a dancing star”

“The worst sickness of men tends to originate in the sentimental way they try to combat their sicknesses. What seems like an easy cure, in the long run produces something worse than what it's supposed to overcome. Fake consolations always have to be paid for with a general and profound worsening of the original complaint.”