For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.
For suffering, Rodion Romanovitch, is a great thing.
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Everything, even his crime, his sentence and imprisonment, seemed to him now in the first rush of feeling an external, strange fact with which he had no concern. But he could not think for long togeth...
Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power.
Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves.
Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathf...
Even at sixteen I wondered at them morosely; even then I was struck by the pettiness of their thoughts, the stupidity of their pursuits, their games, their conversations. They had no understanding of...
En todos los tiempos, el hombre honrado fue un cobarde y un esclavo.
En la pobreza, uno conserva la nobleza de sus sentimientos innatos; en la indigencia, nadie puede conservar nada noble. Con el indigente no se emplea el bastón, sino la escoba, pues así se le humilla...
Dosta je bilo! - izusti odlučno i svečano. - Dalje od mene, utvare, izmišljene strepnje, priviđenja!... Ima još života! Zar nisam sad maloprije živio? Nije mi se još život ugasio s onom babuskarom! Bo...
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?
Do you know that centuries will pass and mankind will proclaim with the mouth of its wisdom and science that there is no crime, and therefore no sin, but only hungry men? Feed them first, then ask vir...
Direi que acabe o mundo mas que eu sempre possa tomar o meu chá.
Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be u...
Christ, too, will forgive, if only you attain to forgiving yourself...Oh, no, no, do not believe that I have spoken a blasphemy: even if you do not attain to reconciliation with yourself and forgivene...
By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your so...
But I’m still curious to know: can you move a mountain or not?’ ‘If God commands it, I will move it,’ Tikhon pronounced with quiet restraint, again beginning to lower his eyes.
Brother, these last two months I've found in myself a new man. A new man has risen up in me. He was hidden in me, but would never have come to the surface, if it hadn't been for this blow from heaven....