He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
Go take the mother’s soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.
Vengeance is mine; I will repay.
Condemn me if you choose I do that myself, but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
Our body is a machine for living.
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
Man’s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man’s soul.
I must have physical exercise, or my temper’ll certainly be ruined.
What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that “amusements” are not so amusing.
Division of labor is a justification for sloth.