He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
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I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I heard an extract from Parsifal which I disliked very much. If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes...
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children.
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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
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