I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.