When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.