There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work. And he did his wor...
Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and...
Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it.
One might murder and steal and yet be happy
Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.
No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.
Life and death are in God's hands
I don't give a damn unless I'm fond of a person;but I'd sacrifice my life for those I am fond of; the rest I'd throttle if they stood in my way...And you may not believe me but if I still set a value...
He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her...
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
Everything intelligent is so boring.
But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more n...
At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of us published...
As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led...
Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is no...
Boredom: the desire for desires.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.