God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.