“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. ”

“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.""Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

“Thus the truth—that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and which is so natural to man—this truth, in order to force a way to man’s consciousness, had to struggle not merely against the obscurity with which it was expressed and the intentional and unintentional distortions surrounding it, but also against deliberate violence, which by means of persecutions and punishments sought to compel men to accept religious laws authorized by the rulers and conflicting with the truth.”

“Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.”