All happy families resemble one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. Kings are the slaves of history.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eatsm meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it.
Mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts.
Until they throw the money changers out of the temple of art, it will never be a real temple.
Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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.
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.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.