Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

I want to suffer so that I may love.