The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.