God knows of love
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered w...
But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink -- he recovered.
At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it;...
All this was clear to me, and I was glad and at peace. Then it is as if someone is saying to me, See that you remember. And I awoke.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life and avoid it as much as possible.
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
To love one's neighbors to love one's enemies to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples...
Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is th...
There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, and an elemental life within the swarm of humanity...
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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.
[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in...
With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but I could not do it. I felt that I would be lying to myself, mocking what was sacred to...
Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because the...