Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it

And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born

If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness

If God does not exist, then everything is permitted

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man