All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.