Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.