They were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire from heaven, though they knew that they would become unhappy.
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
There is a crack in my soul, and I can hear it trembling, quivering, stirring deep inside me.
There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he shall soonest find a new object or idea to worship.
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and...
The servants used to say, 'he read himself silly.
The impudence of Ignorance
The harmonious man, it needs to be said, hardly exists at all; out of many tens, even hundreds of thousands perhaps one or two at most are encountered, and even then in rather feeble versions.
The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.
The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.
That makes it worse! Worse and better!
That is my conviction of forty years. I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar,...
That is all about the raising of Lazarus, she whispered severely and abruptly, and turning away she stood motionless, not daring to raise her eyes to him. She still trembled feverishly. The candle-end...
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.
Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you duri...
She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her
Resulta curioso y ridículo lo mucho que a veces puede expresar la mirada de un hombre vergonzoso, morbosamente púdico, tocado por el amor, precisamente cuando este hombre preferiría que la tierra se a...