Have The Courage To Take Your Own

How Can Any Educated Person Stay Away From The Greeks? I Have Always Been Far More Interested In Them Than In Science.

To Be Sure, It Is Not The Fruits Of Scientific Research That Elevate A Man And Enrich His Nature, But The Urge To Understand, The Intellectual Work, Creative Or Receptive.

It Is Always Delightful When A Great And Beautiful Idea Proves To Be Consonant With Reality.

It Is Quite Clear To Me That The Religious Paradise Of Youth, Which [i] Lost, Was A First Attempt To Free Myself From The Chains Of The 'merely Personal,' From An Existence Which Is Dominated By Wishes, Hopes, And Primitive Feelings.

I Received Your Letter Of June 10th. I Have Never Talked To A Jesuit Priest In My Life And I Am Astonished By The Audacity To Tell Such Lies About Me. From The Viewpoint Of A Jesuit Priest I Am, Of Course, And Have Always Been An Atheist.