God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an...

Life we can't control, she thought. We must accept the cork we are and stay afloat, and bob gaily when we can. She

Tribal people get more out of life.

a tribe is nothing more than a coalition of people working together as equals to make a living.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

Vaughn nodded. Lije steadied himself and looked into the woods. Never could abide no roof. Ours ain't the best, Vaughn said. Leaks come spring. Lije pointed at Venus faint above the distant ridge. The...

The philosopher is a perpetual beginner. This means that he accepts nothing as established from what men or scientists believe they know. This also means that philosophy itself is an ever-renewed...

And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law - the law of love and self - sacrifice taught us by Him...

It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion {i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world} as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a...

Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing...

I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that,...

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

I believed I had won the world in an hour and that I still didn't know I could lose it in a minute.

Abandon all patience, ye who enter beyond this door.

I mean that man is ruled by a tyrant whose name is Ignorance, and that is the tyrant I sought to overthrow. That is the tyrant which gave birth to monarchy, and monarchy is authority based on...

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions... and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.

And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with ribbons and stars, silk stockinged, yellow gloved and with...

At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in heaven.

There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

If one of them appears in company, he's a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.

- I do... - Raskolnikov reluctantly and sternly said. - What are you doing? - Work... - What kind of work? - Thinking, - he replied seriously after a pause.

Why count the days when only one is enough for man to fully know happiness!

The Brothers Karamazov is a joyful book.

I am an inveterate buffoon, and been from birth up, your reverence, it's as though it were a craze in me. I dare say it's a devil within me. But only a little one. A more serious one would have chosen...

Good and gentle creatures do not offer a very stiff resistance, not for long, anyway.

Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread - and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm! Phew, how utterly petty it all is!

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

People are made to torment each other.