Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.