The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.