Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

Everything depends on upbringing.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.