What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.