In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

I don’t count life as life without love

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.