Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.