"The dead sleep in their moonless night. My business is with the living."

"All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself."

"I say that I am an agnostic. People think that's pusillanimous and covering your bets. But it's not based on any beli…"

"He who feels that in his inmost being he cannot be compared with others, will be his own lawgiver. For one thing is n…"

"As the days went slowly by he came to see that Christianity and the denial of Christianity after all met as much as a…"

"Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong."

"Undoubtedly some men are more gifted than others, and are marked out for more studious lives. But the work of such me…"

"'You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of pe…"

"One should not have the arrogance to declare that God does not exist."

"Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it."