Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

Our body is a machine for living.

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.