It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.
Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?. . . We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.