Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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.

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?