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

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" 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. "

" True life is lived when tiny changes occur. "

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

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

" There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. "

" Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "

" In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. "

" 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. "

" We lost because we told ourselves we lost. "

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

" One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. "

" 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. "

" If you want to be happy, be. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. "

" If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. "

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

" Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. "

" Boredom: the desire for desires. "

" 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. "