Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.