Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.