People cannot be spiritually superior or inferior, simply the spiritual consciousness of some is more or less hidden.
Just as today it is written with horror about the way in which the peasants were once whipped, so in years to come it will be written about the fact that the land was privately owned.
Slavic patriotism is good only because it belongs to the spiritual, religious and moral domain.
When super people become people, they are as charming as can be.
The community principle is strong when it is based on the religious principle.
At first civilization pleases, then it bores.
The peasants used to curse the priests. I stop them every time.
How absurd it is to think that the old faith is good! How can you hold on to the old faith when you have the conscience of now? It's like an adult wearing children's clothes.
I value Kant very much, but he is so heavy, so foggy. And Rousseau and especially Pascal expresses himself so brilliantly, clearly, beautifully!
There are three kinds of people: courtiers, workers, and beggars. Hopis and beggars do not rely on themselves, and because they choose a lot, the laborers have little left.
I believe that nothing good can be achieved through vardist, only bad. This superficial education means nothing if violence is used.... There is a means of education, through religion. In Shanghai, in the Chinese half of the city, there are no guards and there are no crimes, and in the European half it is full of guards and there are a lot of crimes...
My celebrity makes me understand that nothing happens for nothing. Every action inevitably has consequences. I see that. I had forgotten my past deeds, and they continue to have repercussions. When you see this, you realize how important every deed, every word is.
The Russian people have something of a herd, they follow the one with ideas. The others just join in, they want to do something, but they themselves don't think.
Merezhkovski and Berdiaev are useless people. I do not condemn them, but I understood that they have less importance than what I attributed to them.
I thought and wrote to the poets that in poems the idea must be new and expressed in the clearest and most beautiful way.
You have to grow slowly, just like trees grow.
To live well, we must keep death in mind, think about life without forgetting death.
The most important thing is to develop your consciousness. By raising your consciousness, you act through yourself on others.
Wisdom is knowing where to stop, knowing what is allowed and what is forbidden.
For the religious man there are impossible deeds, for the irreligious there is nothing impossible to do.
No matter how small my obol is, I must give it. The tool is small, but it has to work.
I am comforted by the fact that I do not think at all about the time, what it will be, that I will not see the consequences of the revolution and I do not strive to find them out. They will be enormous.
Community binds... Community is your separation from others. It is collective selfishness, and we need an identical attitude towards everyone.
[On mankind.] The ideal is "one shepherd, one flock." The destruction of national fences. (April 5)
When you see everything clearly, then you want to die more. When you grow old, you see clearly that the purpose of life is in no way a consequence, it is not a result... To work in the name of the purpose brings you a series of disappointments. But the inertia of this move makes it hard to stop.
If I were young, I would go to China. The most conservative people. In eight years, the constitution will be introduced to them as well.
The people think that dying is a job that you have to complete.
[On the sanctification of the exhibition of meat products.] Wherever you look, whatever it is, you can't do it without a job.
The most common method of the enemies of the truth: if someone says something offhand, they pretend that's all he said and contradict him.
Censorship blocks temporarily, and temporarily achieves its goal, those in power need it.