And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Beauty would save the world.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor