To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Our body is a machine for living.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.