«La caridad encubre todos los pecados», decía san Pedro. - Miguel de Unamuno

To know something is to make this something that I know myself; but to avail myself of it, to dominate it, it has to remain distinct from myself.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Egoism you say? There is nothing more universal than the individual, for what is the property of each is the property of all. Each man is worth more than the whole of humanity, nor will it do to sacrifice each to all save in so far as all sacrifice themselves to each. That which we call egoism is the principle of psychic gravity, the necessary postulate. "Love thy neighbor as thyself," we are told, the presupposition being that each man loves himself; and it is not said "Love thyself." And nevertheless, we do not know how to love ourselves.