Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.