Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory.
The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.
It is no sin to look at a nice girl.
In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.
There’s a way out of every situation.
Well, so it isn’t time yet to die, is it?
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.
Energy is based on love.
Commit no act that is contrary to love.
All art has this characteristic-it unites people.
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.
I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.
In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.