It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. |
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half |
It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket. |
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth |
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God. |
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled |
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled |
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others |
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic |
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. |
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. |
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain |
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. |
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. |
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. |