What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.