A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.