In marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
Если добро имеет причину, оно уже не добро; если оно имеет последствие — награду, оно тоже не добро. Стадо быть, добро вне цепи причин и следствий.
There is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by...
But my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the pow...
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...
When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!
What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything? he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of th...
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...
Vengeance is mine, I will repay
True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which binds his life to that infinity and guides his actions.
There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts
The thought that he might, and very probably would die that night occurred to him, but did not seem particularly unpleasant or dreadful.It did not seem particularly unpleasant, because his whole life...
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is...
Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.
Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as wanting, that is, he is conscious of his will. And his will,...
He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him. A man co...
Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions...
Formerly, when I was told to consider him wise, I kept trying to, and thought I was stupid myself because I was unable to perceive his wisdom; but as soon as I said to myself, he's stupid (only in a w...
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.