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

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.