In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.