To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them. - Leo Tolstoy

After Plotinus, says Schassler, fifteen centuries passed without the slightest scientific interest for the world of beauty and art. ...In reality, nothing of the kind happened. The science of aesthetics ... neither did nor could vanish, because it never existed. ... the Greeks were so little developed that goodness and beauty seemed to coincide. On that obsolete Greek view of life the science of aesthetics was invented by men of the eighteenth century, and especially shaped and mounted in Baumgarten's theory. The Greeks (as anyone may read in Bénard's book on Aristotle and Walter's work on Plato) never had a science of aesthetics.

The whole historic existence of mankind is nothing else than the gradual transition from the personal, animal conception of life to the social conception of life, and from the social conception of life to the divine conception of life.

الملكية هي سبب استغلال الإنسان للإنسان، وانتشار الظلم والتمييز في المجتمع، فطبقة الإقطاعيين تمتلك كل أراضي روسيا، ومعظم الشعب هو من الفلاحيين ولايمتلك أي شيء تقريباً فأين العدل إذن؟