I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.