but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

God knows, but He's waiting

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

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?

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.