The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.