I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth