It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

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.

A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.