If you prefer it, Your Excellency, a private room will be free directly: Prince Golitsin with a lady. Fresh oysters have come in.Ah, oysters! Stepan Arkadyevich became thoughtful.How if we were to cha...
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...
Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I knew...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies...
I have only to go stubbornly on towards my aim, and I shall attain my end, thought Levin; and it's something to work and take trouble for. This is not a matter of myself individually; the question of...
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...
As he looked round, she too turned her head .Her shining gray eyes, that looked dark from the thick lashes, rested with friendly attention on his face, as though she were recognizing him, and then pro...
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there ca...