The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.