“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”

“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man... they should, surely they should! It is man's own duty to arrange it so; it is his law--a hidden but surely existing one...”

“But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, "Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!”

“He who despises most things will be a law-giver among them.”

“It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave”