God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

Everything I know, I know because of love.

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

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.