 All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. |
| The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. |
| There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. |
| We lost because we told ourselves we lost. |
| Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. |
| All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. |
| Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. |
| The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. |
| Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. |
| Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. |
| One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. |
| To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. |
| In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. |
| Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. |
| What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. |
| The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. |
| He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. |
| If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. |
| Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. |
