He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

The most important time is Now