The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.