Several times I asked myself, 'Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?' And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain. I killed people in war, challenged men to duels with the purpose of killing them,…

The Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resi…

Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time the…

I looked and looked but I didn't see God.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

There is not love of life without despair about life.