A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.