A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.