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A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.