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.

---

All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

---

Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.

---

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

---

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

---

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

---

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

---

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

---

There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

---

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

---