What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and ...yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that... death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past... childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individua...l who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass ...by. They don't have far to go, either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of som...eone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »