You thirst for life, yet you yourself resolve life’s questions with a logical tangle. And how importunate, how impudent your escapades, yet at the same time how frightened you are! You talk nonsense,...
لعل نفس الإنسان ، بعد أن تعاني مثل هذا العدد الكبير من الإحساسات ، لا تنتهي إلى الشبع منها ، بل تهتاج وتطلب المزيد من إحساسات جديدة ما تنفك تعنف ثم تعنف ، إلى أن تصل إلى درجة الإنهاك.
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it,
لاحظ أن الصور الفوتوغرافية يندر أن تشمل على شبه. وسبب ذلك واضح: فالأصل، أعني كل واحد منا يندر أن يشبه نفسه. هناك لحظات نادرة يعبر فيها الوجه عن السمة الأساسية في الإنسان وعن فكرة الذي يميزه إن الفنان...
Unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulli...
What's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as...
Well, legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the anci...
Perhaps one may be out late, and had got separated from one's companions. Oh horrors! Suddenly one starts and trembles as one seems to see a strange-looking being peering from out of the darkness of a...
إن الحقيقة الصادقة دائما تكون غير قابلة أن تصدق، فإن شئت أن تجعل الحقيقة قابلة أن تصدق عليك أن تضيف إليها شيئا من الكذب
Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of me.
People won't change, nobody can reform them, and it's not worth the effort! Yes, that's right! It's the law of their being. . . . Their law, Sonia! That's right! I know now, Sonia, that whoever is str...
We don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to c...
إن العصر الذهبي هو أمنية من أكثر الأماني استحالة على هذه الأرض، ولكنها على استحالتها رأينا بشرا يهبون لها حياتهم كلها، وقواهم كلها، وفي سبيلها مات أنبياء وقُتل أنبياء، وبدونها لا تريد الشعوب أن تعيش،...
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
People are alone on this earth—that's the problem!
Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there’s no escaping it.
To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
إنني أشعر كلما دخلت على بعض الناس أنني أسوأ من الآخرين، وأن الجميع يعدونني مهرجا! فأقول لنفسي عندئذ، فليكن! سأقوم بدور المهرج، لأنكم جميعا أكثر مني غباوة، وأخبث سريرة
Stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Orice poate fi discutabil pana la infinit, dar din mine nu a razbit decat negarea, fara niciun fel de generozitate si fara niciun fel de forta. Asadar, nici macar o negare adevarata n-am fost in stare...
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