When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you,be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality. That is the inmost philosophy of the Fall.

All the real argument about religion turns on the question of whether a man who was born upside down can tell when he comes right way up.

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.