Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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.

I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.