The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.