This foolish smile he could not forgive himself.
They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander.
These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and...
Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.
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.
There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement. —VISHNU PURANA,
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are abstract, and the elemental life of the swarm, in which a man must inevitably follow...
The younger sister was piqued, and in turn disparaged the life of a tradesman, and stood up for that of a peasant.I would not change my way of life for yours, said she. We may live roughly, but at lea...
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without lov...
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.
The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
The soul of man is the lamp of God,’ says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God’s light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlight...
The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac bush close by and then stopped on hearing our voices; the starry sky see...
The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.
The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life which shields people from the consequences of their actions. Howeve...
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability o...