Leo Nikolaevich
Leo Nikolaevich
care love people reason
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves,but by the love for them that is in other people.
activity art best feelings highest human men others purpose
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
higher judge life reason supreme
If there is no higher reason--and there is none--then my own reason must be the supreme judge of my life
boundaries cannot destroyed government national people unity
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
capital control fulfill laws loss men organized personal rules subjected violence
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.
govern laws loss means organized people subjected
Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered.
answer carry everyday except gives life usual
There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questions. This answer is: carry on with your everyday affairs, that is to say, put it out of your mind.
becomes deeply feelings heart human man seated
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
bear beliefs cannot content hold preserve sick thinking
If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of
catch directions gain happiness means oneself spider throw web
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes
becomes everybody life reveals unknown
The more everybody lives, the more life reveals to him; what was unknown becomes known.
anyone dear enter guarded guards heart key knew nine quite
He was nine years old and quite a child, but he knew his soul, it was dear to him, and he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and never let anyone enter his heart without the key of love.
allowing assume evil immense mass
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
beautiful best hence life poet puts takes work
The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beautiful and his life bad.