Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Art is a delayed echo.