“The great problems are to be encountered in the street.”

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”

“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

“However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!”

“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.”