Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.