Why am I going? he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. You know that I am going in order to be where you are, said he. I cannot do otherwise.Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forge...
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because the...
When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not the sweet violet - you know, that early dark violet that smells of melting snow and spring grass.
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, were...
What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.
War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.
To take the simplest example: one man laughs, and another, who hears, becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another, who hears, feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man, seeing him, c...
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling tha...
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent
There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In order to escape the beast the traveler hides in an empty well, but at the bottom of t...
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
The question was summed up for him thus: If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?
The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...
The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.
So they are even more frightened than we are,' he thought. 'Why, is this all that's meant by heroism? And did I do it for the sake of my country? And was he to blame with his dimple and his blue eyes?...
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those mome...
Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it.