War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.