An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.
The practical activity of man had to lead his consciousness to the reptetition of various logical figures thousands of millions of times in order that these figures could obtain the significance of axioms.
A full definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive. And that's where I want to move now.
When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
"It is so convenient to be frank and honest" said Nietzsche. He meant "toward other people," naturally.
The two of us haven't seen each other for a year now, and when we saw each other we bowed in front of each other. This very idea of bowing, you don't bow in front of a screen. It's made impossible, or very difficult, for people who constantly see non-persons on the screen.
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.