One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

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.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.