In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.