All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.