“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs”
“To concentrate on the problems and aspirations which all thinking men share creates a sense of comradeship that is eventually bound to reunite scholars and artists of all nations.”
“I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.”
"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
