Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

We're asleep until we love.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.