Happy people have no history.

If you want to be happy, just be.

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.