Leo Nikolaevich
Leo Nikolaevich
beyond human law life moral perfection reach
Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life
ivan life therefore
Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.
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.
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
care learned lives man
I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by 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.
knowing life
Without knowing why I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
almost poor
We will do almost anything for the poor man, anything but get off his back
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
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!
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.
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.
becomes everybody life reveals unknown
The more everybody lives, the more life reveals to him; what was unknown becomes known.
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.