Truth is not to be sought in the ghostly realms outside the world, not outside of time and space, not in some "God" that would probably exist within the world or outside of it, but much closer, in the very heart of man.
History repeats itself twice - first as tragedy, then as farce.
I'm serious about something funny, when you imagine this something is actually funny.
Each of us makes himself as he appears in the eyes of the other.
Each step of an action is more important than a dozen programs.
Every man, in whom there is a talent like Raphael's, must have the opportunity to develop unimpeded.
It seems that as mankind subdues its nature, man becomes the slave of other men or the slave of his own wickedness.
When a slave becomes master for a day, then, on this day, he is completely dominated by raw instincts.
Criticism of religion frees man from illusions so that he can think, act, construct his reality as a wise man.
It's easy to be holy when you don't want to be human.
Parents' love is the most selfless.
The world has never been either corrected or intimidated by punishment.
My work is a free manifestation of life and therefore a pleasure of life.
Morality is "powerlessness in action". Every time she fights some vice, she is defeated.
Morality is based on the autonomy of the human spirit.
Moral power is impossible to create by paragraphs of law.
We must openly warn against this kind of hypocritical friends, who, although they declare their agreement to the principles, doubt their realization, because the world is not yet ripe for them.
On a flat plateau, any hill looks like a hill.
To inspire courage, the people must be made to fear themselves.
Punishment is only a means of self-defense of society against violations of its conditions of existence. Wonderful is that society which knows no more effective method of self-defense than the executioner proclaiming his own brutality as eternal law.
A punishment must not inspire more disgust than the wrongdoing.
The people who enslave another people make chains for themselves.
He who enjoys wealth is, at the same time, both slave and master of his wealth, he is, at the same time, generous and chalice, capricious and arrogant, given to wild fantasies, delicate, educated, intelligent. He has not yet felt his wealth as some kind of foreign force, standing above him.
Not only man's wealth, but also his poverty acquires, within socialism, a human, and therefore social, significance. It is the passive connection that makes man feel the need of the greatest wealth - another man.
Ignorance is a demonic force, and we fear that it will cause more tragedies.
Independent morality offends the universal principles of religion, and the special concepts of religion are contrary to morality.
Human feelings must be humanized, a human feeling must be created that corresponds to the full richness of human nature and nature.
The direct, natural and necessary attitude of a man towards another man is the attitude of man towards woman. Therefore, based on this attitude, one can judge the level of general human culture.
There is nothing easier than to rejoice for any reason because of one's own moral perfection; it's easiest to do that with the dead.
There is nothing more horrible and humiliating than being a slave to a slave.