When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

Only entropy comes easy.