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Anna Karenina
Det fascinerende hvordan skjønnet alltid oppfattes som synonymt med godhet
Keutzer Sonaten
Experimental science ... only deals with positive knowledge and reveals the greatness of the human intellect when it does not introduce the question of ultimate causes into inquiries. Abstract sicience, on the other hand, only becomes a sience and only reveals the greatness of the human intellect when it completely avoids questions conserning the sequence of causative phenomena and examines man only in relation to an ultimate cause
A Confession, 5 kap.
Jeg ville ikke engang vite sannheten, fordi jeg allerede hadde gjettet den; livet er meningsløst
A Confession, 4 kap., 1879
I mye visdom er det mye sorg. Å øke ens kunnskap betyr å øke ens sorg
A Confession,6 kap.
Skal et menneske kunne leve et meningsfyllt liv, må han enten være uvitende om det uendelige, eller så må han ha en eller annen forklaring på meningen med livet, slik at det endelige bringes i overenstemmelse med det uendelige
A Confession
Essensen av enhver religion ligger helt og holdent i svaret på spørsmålet; hvorfor eksisterer jeg, og hva er mitt forhold til det uendlige univers som omgir meg?
Religion and Morality
Antisemittisme er en patologisk tilstand, en besynderlig form for seksuell perversjon. Blant alle skjendige fenomener er den det ekleste og mest avskyelige
Føreren er bølgen som driver skipet fremover
Historie er bare en samling mynter og unyttige bagateller, pyntet med en menge unyttige skikkelser og merkelige navn
Når jeg engang står med det ene ben i kisten, vil jeg si sannheten om kvinnen, skynde meg å trekke det andre benet etter og lukke lokket
En mann vil ofre sin familie for en idé, en kvinne aldri
Musikk er følelsens stenografi
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them
Without knowing why I am and why I am here, life is impossible
Ivan Ilych's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible
Hovedattraksjonen ved det millitære har og vil være den obligatoriske og fullendte lediggang
For å være istand til å tilegne seg og beholde makt, må man elske den
Ren og fullstendig sorg, er like umulig som ren og fullstendig glede
Krig og fred
The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it
War and peace
Rousseau has been my master since the age of fifteen.
Rousseau and the Gospel have been the two great positive influences on my life
Brev til Rousseau der han takker ja til å bli det første medlem av Sociéte Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced
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
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Only those live who do good.
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul
