It is strange that the people like the Psalter, which is decadent poetry.
What a great truth that illness is for the good of man! It's better to be sick than to have your tail up.
As sickness is for the good of man, money harms him. Live your life and you will see that it is so.
I was brought up to respect superiors, I broke that rule all my life and still kept my reflexes. Lately, I've been breaking it. I know them all. Good-for-nothing people.
Suvorin * is dirty, but famous, and Skovoroda ** is unknown. Skovoroda is a wise writer whose influence spreads over time, over a long time. It will become more and more known here and will be translated into foreign languages, that's how it will be, I want it to be that way...
Our true pity is directed only towards people, when we deal with animals it is only a reflex of pity towards people. Our compassion towards animals must increase, and it (how can we not know this, it's obvious to me) will influence the relationships between people.
Equality is possible when there is humility and man wants to be lower than the lowest, not when there is arrogance and man wants to be equal to the superiors, envying them. One of the greatest sins of the world today is the arrogance that we, the so-called educated people, can help the people.
The strong points of the Germans are militarism, Wilhelm * and mustaches, but the weak ones coincide with ours: socialism, the proletariat, hatred of the surrounding peoples. When their arrangement will be destroyed and what happened to us will happen to them.
No amount of ministers and kings can build that good social order which unifying faith brings. The Russian people have not yet reached it. The disorder, the anarchy, the possibility of doing anything, the murders will not stop until the union in faith begins.
In Kant there are no contradictions. By proving that the external world is illusory, he emphasizes the foundation of life.
In your youth you get angry, you judge, you are envious, you are consumed by passions. All these leave you in old age.
The candle lights without its will. Likewise man, becoming better, shines around him. God made man to influence others as he perfects himself.
... And my memory is failing. I don't regret it at all. As the burden of knowledge, the baggage of memory decreases, the dynamics of thoughts does not decrease, but on the contrary, it becomes clearer.
Chinese maximums are not as accurate as European ones.
In essence, all these pages of the Gospel are of no importance. Those who do not want to know the truth will not be convinced by them, those who have not already been conquered by the truth do not need these pages.
I know, I feel sorry for killing even the bugs. They are trapped, I feel sorry for them. Mosquitoes are small, but I don't feel sorry for them. But when I remember, I don't kill them.
It's better to think than talk. Speaking, you are "constrained", you find yourself under the influence of the interlocutor. It's better to write than to talk, when you write you have everyone in mind and explain in detail.
Gentlemen with this conviction of theirs that they can help the people are like ticks that would like to heal the man they parasitize.
How good it is to be 80 years old! You don't make plans to do one or the other, you just live.
Reason favors a good life, good life favors reason.
Lack of religious views inevitably brings with it a decay in the arts and philosophy.
...It doesn't take you anywhere, everything is inside you, make every effort to perfect yourself, to deepen yourself. Look within yourself, not outside of you. Strain your strength to remove that which hinders the manifestation of Divinity within you. External conditions are the consequences of internal transformations.
lately I have an unpleasant feeling towards a man who hates me. I tried to partly overcome this feeling in my thoughts through love. I succeeded. And the thought of that man even arouses love in me.
How well I understand Pascal when he said that the difference between life and dream lies only in the fact that the dream does not repeat itself.
Civilization, as it is now evolving, as material progress devoid of morals, does not promise anything good. If the good of man was in view, there would be no automobiles. Raising horses from foals and training them are real pleasures... Now the most important thing is for moral progress to reach the material level, and then all material conditions will change. In what way? We cannot predict.
Continuous tension is neither possible nor necessary... It is impossible to work on yourself permanently.
Smog reduces intellectual capacity. Circulus viciousus.
Christ is only a man who made men aware that they are sons of God.
The desire to influence others borders on the desire for worldly glory... I must work harder to fight these desires.
The desire to live in other people's souls is legitimate.