The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

We didn't love freedom enough.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.