Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.
Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Money is coined liberty.
Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it’s all right if he’s bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
To think too much is a disease.
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”
I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever...
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.
Make us your slaves, but feed us.
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we’d better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.