Man is ready to do a lot for love, but he is ready for anything to arouse envy.
Man must not criticize others on the ground where he himself cannot stand upright.
A timid man asks for a tenth of the share he wants to receive. A brave man asks for twice as much and will accept half.
Man is able to accept any injustice, if he was born and grew up surrounded by it.
The man who cannot lie to himself finds it difficult to lie to others.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little to no influence in society.
The human brain is a wonderful thing. It works until the moment you stand up to give your speech.
Reader, imagine you are an idiot; now imagine you are a congressman; by the way, I'm repeating myself.
What to do with the man who first started celebrating his birthday? To kill him is a little.
To be happy, you must live in your own paradise! Do you not think that one and the same heaven can satisfy all men without exception?
The moral sense helps us understand the essence of morality and how we can avoid it.
Sixty years ago "optimistic" and "stupid" were not synonymous.
A noise proves nothing. Sometimes the hen that made an egg clucks so loudly, as if she made a whole planet.
Ethics consists of political ethics, business ethics, church ethics and ethics.
Humor activates the thinking mechanism.
I made a commitment to never smoke more than one cigarette at a time again.
I have seen men who for thirty years have hardly changed, and their wives have become old. These were all virtuous women, and virtue wears a man down.
I have long since lost my belief in immortality and any interest in this work.
I did both intellectual and physical work; and for all the money in the Universe I wouldn't agree to work thirty days in a row with a needle; and I would gladly and for free do any intellectual work, even the most difficult - and I would be satisfied.
I am not involved in politics. We have an editor in the politics department. This is a very capable man, and if he spent a year or two in prison, he would become irreplaceable.
I don't intend to spoil my relations neither courage nor hell I have friends and in one place you have in another.
I never let school activities get in the way of learning.
I refused to attend his funeral, but I sent a very polite letter agreeing to this event.
I have traveled a lot and have come to the conclusion that even angels speak English with a foreign accent.
I believe that we are not able to become truly ourselves, honest to the end, until the moment of death and even more - until we have been in the ground for years on end. If people saw from the beginning that they are mortal, they would have become honest much sooner.
In the historical development of mankind the importance of the mystical state - of inspiration - can never be overestimated. In one form or another, inspiration permeates the entire spiritual life of man, being the basic element of life.
In any system of philosophy the state of mind of its creator is obviously reflected.
The whole history of science shows at every turn that some personalities were more right in their assertions than entire corporations of scientists and than hundreds of thousands of researchers who adhered to the prevailing opinions... The truth often shows itself in a greater extent to these heretics of science than to the representatives of orthodox scientific thought. Of course, not all groups and individuals outside the scientific worldview have this great foresight into the future of human thought, but only some, a few. But the real people with a genuine scientific worldview are always to be found in these groups and individuals who sit on the fringes, among the heretics of science, and not among the representatives of the dominant scientific view. To distinguish these from those who are in error is not the business of contemporaries.
It is said that the natural sciences have increased the power of man, given him an unknown strength. Rather, they brought nature down to the level of man, created the possibility of foreseeing its smallness and intuiting that after due investigation it will prove to be of the same kind as human nature.
For scientific development, it is necessary to recognize the full freedom of a personality, of the personal spirit, because only with this condition is a scientific vision of the world replaced by another, created by the free and independent work of a personality.