It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.