There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.