To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer