104 quotes found
“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, w...”
“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
“And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple lawthe law of love and self-sacrifice taught us by Him w...”
“He suffered from an unlucky facultycommon to many men, especially Russiansthe faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil ...”
“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.”
“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in wh...”
“Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.”
“During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to l...”
“At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping i...”
“Never, never marry, my friend. Heres my advice to you: dont marry until you can tell yourself that youve done all you could, and until youve stopped loving the woman youve chosen, until you see her...”
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make p...”
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand. I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love ...”
“It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.”
“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982”
“Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.”
“He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothesaccording to the fashion...”
“He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”
“There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...”
“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
“Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thi...”
