The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has been made, is very new.

The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him wor…

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.