I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.