In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.