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

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;"

"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

"The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before..."

"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception."

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

"Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new."

"He sends a cross, but He also sends the strength to bear it."

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

"Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it."

"If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

"Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."

"It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice"

"It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness."

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity."

"Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace"

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them"

"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

"There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife"