I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.