Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."