For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

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

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.