I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?