The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

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