Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

The world is no nursery.