But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

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

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.