For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
Does it ever happen to you, Natasha said to her brother, when they had settled in the sitting room, does it ever happen to you that you feel there's nothing more - nothing; that everything good has al...
But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty,...
But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.
As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part of a whole too vast for man to comprehend, so each individual bears within himself his own purpose,...
As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or disbelieve Him, and I died.What is this animation and dying? I do not live when I lose belief in the ex...
Answer me two more questions,’ said the King. ‘The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased to do so now? And the second is, Why your grandson walks with two crutches, your son...
And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the external law, when they are not in agreement with the divine law of love which...
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered,...
And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work, not contentment in myself. And how remote and impossible my old religious enthusiasms seem now… and...
A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. What does it mean that thirty thousan...
She still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.
التنبه الدائم، العمل، الصراع، الحرمان بشتى أنواعه، هذه كلها شروط ضرورية لايجوز لأحد أن يتجرأ حتى على الحلم بالخروج منها ولو للحظة واحدة. علينا كي نعيش بشرف أن تنمزق، أن نسخط على أنفسنا، أن نقاتل، أن ن...
The children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only the griefs, only sand; but t...
You understand that the feeling which makes them work is not a feeling of pettiness, ambition, forgetfulness, which you have yourself experienced, but a different sentiment, one more powerful, and one...
Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,’ he thought. And suddenly at this thought of death a whole series of most distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembere...
With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth showed signs of bad character, and so on, and so on. Rarely, rarely would...
Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was alr...
They say: sufferings are misfortunes, said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's...
Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.