I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from the maddest love!
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortune...
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime.
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ce...
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to ...
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?
Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
It’s not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also...
He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
