No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.  We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

— Teilhard de Chardin

Shell:  ‘Tober, what does it mean: Faith?’
Tober:  ‘Only one man had it.’
Shell:  ‘. . . What is it, Tober?’
Tober:  ‘It’s life.’

— Odd Man Out (1947)

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

— Nietzsche