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- The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long…
- What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
- In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event…
- 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in…
- As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which…
- It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such…
- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
- Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people,…
- True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important.…
- Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side…
- Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on…
- If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use…
- Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If…
- Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but…
- 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…
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even…
- The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
- Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty…
- Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
- There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
- 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…
- I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.
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