The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.
We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
The one who is happy, that’s the one who is right.
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.
Good fiction doesn’t come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
The most important time is Now.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.
Without Greek studies there is no education.
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
Upon meeting, you’re judged by your clothes, upon parting you’re judged by your wits.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.