Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

Everything depends on upbringing.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things