In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.