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

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

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

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