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

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.