The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.