The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.