The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.