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We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking on...more

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How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the eart...more

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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

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To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...more

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...more

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

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

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Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time...more

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But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of...more

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When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hosti...more