One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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

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

I don’t count life as life without love

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.