Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.