The ultimate fallacy about the wisdom of older people: They're not wise, they're just cautious.
The greatness of the iceberg's movement lies in the fact that it rises only one-eighth above the surface of the water.
Geography is powerless against what binds you. You can't run away from yourself.
They say that happiness is boring, but this is the case, because boring people are often very happy, and interesting and intelligent people manage to poison their existence and those around them.
No amount of agreements can help unhappiness. Only death can cure her, and anything else will only weaken and anesthetize her. They say time heals it too. But if healing brings you nothing but death, then your misfortune may not have been real.
There are worse things than war. Cowardice is worse, betrayal is worse, selfishness is worse.
There is only one political system that cannot produce good writers, and that system is the fascist one. Because fascism is a lie told by thugs. The writer who does not want to lie cannot live and work in fascism.
When you love, you want to do something in the name of love. You want to sacrifice yourself. You want to serve.
When people bring so much courage to this world, the world has to kill them to break them, and so it does. The world breaks anyone and many become more resilient afterwards. But those who do not want to break, they kill. It kills the best and the softest, as well as the bravest, without discrimination.
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives after the death of a loved one.
Of all the impossible things, something is still possible - first of all, the ability to feel happiness and enjoy it, as long as it is present and all is well.
There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. The point is that different measures apply.
Happiness is the most wonderful thing in the world, and for those who can be happy, it can be as deep as sadness.
Those who fight the war are the most wonderful people, and the closer you are to those on the front lines the more wonderful people you will meet, while those who plan, unleash and wage the war are pigs who only think about competition economic and how it will enrich them. I believe that all those who start the war and profit from it should be shot from the very first day of military operations by the honest citizens of the country who are sent to fight.
He who subdues his own spirit is stronger than he who conquers cities.
Man is not created to suffer defeats...
Man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Without equality there is no marriage. A wife excluded from all her husband's interests, a stranger to them, who does not share them, is a concubine, a housekeeper, a nanny, but not a wife in the full and noble sense of the word.
To be human in human society is not a heavy responsibility at all, but a simple evolution of an inner requirement; no one says that the bee has a sacred duty to make honey; she does it because she is a bee.
In a petty bourgeois the personality is hidden or not manifested because it is not the most important thing: the main things are the goods and business; the main one is wealth.
There is nothing in the world more devastating and unbearable than inaction and waiting.
In science, there is no other way to success than the sweat of the brow; neither startups, nor fantasy, nor wholehearted aspiration is a substitute for work.
In nature, nothing breaks out and nothing appears in a completely finished form.
People who fast and are always grumpy have always seemed suspicious to me; if they do not pretend, then they suffer either from disorders of the stomach or of the mind.
The question: "Can there be a soul without a body?" it contains a ridiculous judgment, which precedes the question, and which is based on the fact that the soul and the body are two different things. What would you say to a man who asked you, "Can a black cat leave a room and the color black remain?" You would think him crazy, but both questions are exactly the same.
Our enemies have never separated words from deeds, and they have punished for words not only in the same way, but often more severely than for deeds.
All public and political matters, all fantastic and heroic interests tend, as a people perfects itself, to turn into matters of national welfare.
All religions have based morality on submission, that is, on voluntary slavery.
All the aspirations and efforts of nature are perfected by man; they tend to him, they flow into him like an ocean.
A slave is the least selfish.