I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.