But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.