I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.

Er ist eine Skala der Proportionen, die das Schlechte schwierig und das Gute leicht macht.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The position in which we are now is a very strange one which in general political life never happened. Namely, the thing that I refer to is this: To have secur…

For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity of power to cause the causes of effects, than to cause the effects themselves. Th…

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have t…

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the q…