Author Nationality

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Nationality : Russian

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Nationality : Russian

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Nationality : Russian

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Nationality : Russian

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Nationality : Russian

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Nationality : Russian

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Nationality : Russian

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Nationality : Russian

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Nationality : Russian

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Nationality : Russian