You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away
All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.
A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.
Where there is love, there is God also.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.
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