It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.