If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is completely relaxed; once your eye is relaxed, your mind is unfettered.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.