If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.