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.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

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

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.