If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

God is the same everywhere.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

If you want to be happy, just be.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.