You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Our body is a machine for living.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.