We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.