There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man.
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy.
Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.
I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.
To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.
Men need only trust in Christ’s teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.
We shall all of us die, so why grudge a little trouble?
I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words – that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.