Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.