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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.
the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.
What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.