"The aim of art is not to solve a problem, but to state a problem correctly."

"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."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

"There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way."

"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."