Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
Faith is the force of life.
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!