Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

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.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.