Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.