Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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.

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

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.