The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.