If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.