I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.