My body and my will are one.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.