"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
"In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross."
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"