What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.