And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.