What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.