Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.

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.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!