Faith Means The Will To Avoid Knowing

O, What Nowadays Does Science Not Conceal! How Much, At Least, It Is Meant To Conceal!

To Demand Of Strength That It Should Not Express Itself As Strength, That It Should Not Be A Desire To Overcome, A Desire To Throw Down, A Desire To Become Master, A Thirst For Enemies And Resistances And Triumphs, Is Just As Absurd As To Demand Of Weakness That It Should Express Itself As Strength.

This Is What Is Hardest: To Close The Open Hand Because One Loves.

If It Is True To Say Of The Lazy That They Kill Time, Then It Is Greatly To Be Feared That An Era Which Sees Its Salvation In Public Opinion, This Is To Say Private Laziness, Is A Time That Really Will Be Killed: I Mean That It Will Be Struck Out Of The History Of The True Liberation Of Life. How Reluctant Later Generations Will Be To Have Anything To Do With The Relics Of An Era Ruled, Not By Living Men, But By Pseudo-men Dominated By Public Opinion.

We Must Learn To Love, Learn To Be Kind, And This From The Earliest Youth; If Education Or Chance Give Us No Opportunity To Practice These Feelings, Our Soul Becomes Dry And Unsuited Even To Understanding The Tender Inventions Of Loving People.