If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

God is the same everywhere.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.