The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.