Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.