If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

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.