A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.