Leo Nikolaevich
Leo Nikolaevich
attained believed discovered gladly knowledge love neighbour reason
Was it by reason that I attained 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 they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason!
according activity bad good human kinds learn mainly methods people reason
There are two methods of human activity -- and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, there are two kinds of people. One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowle
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
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.
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.
knowing life
Without knowing why I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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.
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
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.
almost poor
We will do almost anything for the poor man, anything but get off his back
beyond human law life moral perfection reach
Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life
contrary discern eyes good lucky matter meet others people qualities rival shut
There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe
ivan life therefore
Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.