Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.