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.
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen.
I don’t allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God’s laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man’s injustice to his fellow man.
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.