Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.