Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.