"I want to say to you, about myself, that I am a child of this age, a child of unfaith and scepticism, and probably (i…"

"Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in…"

"Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it …"

"I think that the principal and most basic spiritual need of the Russian People is the need for suffering, incessant a…"

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."

"A great many people were put down as mad among us last year. And in such language! "With such original talent" ... "a…"

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

"Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia."

"All writers, not ours alone but foreigners also, who have sought to represent Absolute Beauty, were unequal to the ta…"

"To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mys…"