These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...