If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...