People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.