A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.