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. Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perveived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful.
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
The most precious things in life are note those one gets for money. Peace He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist. The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society. My pacificism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of people is disgusting.