Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If you want to be happy, be.

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.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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.