Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

All movements go too far.

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.