It is not the gift of creative fiction that makes a poet, but the gift of inspiration.
The writer is a man who finds it harder to write than others.
Talent is the ability to find your own destiny.
A man is young or old according to how he feels himself.
Man is weak: when he is applauded, something in him grows and expands, and because of the cold stillness he compresses.
Man is a mystery, and at the foundation of humanity is always the admiration of this mystery.
Without limiting the scope of activity, nothing remarkable can be done in any field. It is the absolute duty of a legislator not to make into a crime what is in the nature of a misdemeanor, and even then only according to the circumstances. He must humanely correct all this as a social problem, because it would be an extreme injustice to sanction these crimes as anti-social crimes.
Wealth, if viewed from a material point of view, consists only of a variety of necessities.
A rich man is at the same time a man who needs the fullness of human manifestations of life, a man in whom his own realization appears as an inner necessity, like a need.
To be a slave or to be a citizen - these are social definitions, the relation of a man A to a man B. A man A as such is not a slave. He is a slave in and through society.
To be sensitive is to suffer.
In reality, the "social-educational role" of the state lies in its rational and social existence.
In science there is no broad road, and to the shining heights of science can only he who, fearing no weariness, soars along its stony paths.
In the attitude towards woman, regarded as the victim and servant of public voluptuousness, is expressed that infinite degradation in which man finds himself with regard to himself.
In politics, to achieve a certain goal, a pact can be made even with the devil himself - you just have to be sure that you will fool the devil, and not him.
In the struggle with the truth, error reveals itself.
The devaluation of the human world increases in direct proportion to the rise of prices in the material world.
In the vanity of the world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life.
The adult cannot become again without falling into childhood. But does he not enjoy the naivete of the child and must he not tend to reproduce the truth inherent in the child on a higher level?
Imagination is a great gift, through its contribution to the development of mankind.
The educator himself must be educated.
Later, the natural sciences will include the science of man to the same extent that the science of man will include the natural sciences: both will be one science.
The temporary separation is useful, because a continuous communion has an air of uniformity.
Time is a stretch for skill development.
Time has served my love in the same way that sun and rain serve a plant - for its growth in it are concentrated all my spiritual energy and all the power of my feelings. I feel human again in the full sense of the word, because I feel a great passion.
Any truly strong character, as soon as it sets foot on the revolutionary path, finds new strength even in defeat.
Universal modesty of spirit is reason, that universal independence of thought, which relates to every thing according to the very essence of that thing.
The full manifestation of an individual will no longer represent an ideal, a vocation, and so on, only when the impact of the external world that contributes to the effective development of the individual's skills, will be taken under the control of the individuals themselves.
Every nation can and must learn from others.
All savings ultimately come down to saving time.