Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.