it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

A holy spirit lives within you.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?