I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?
Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.
Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
Faith is the force of life.
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly – one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
After the doctor’s departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.
History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?