The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.