Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

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.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.