Christianity is called the religion of pity.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!