Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.