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" Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. "

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" The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. "

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

" We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. "

" 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. "

" Music is the shorthand of emotion. "

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

" 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. "

" We lost because we told ourselves we lost. "

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

" Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. "

" If you want to be happy, be. "

" Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "

" 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. "

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

" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. "

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

" 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. "

" He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. "

" 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 all possible means - except by getting off his back. "

" Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "

" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "

" Boredom: the desire for desires. "

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

" All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. "

" And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. "

" 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. "

" The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. "