The Infinite Library

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”

“He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live”

“One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.' 'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...' 'Life won't leave one alone as it is.”

“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”

“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.”

“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”

“In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.”

“God is the same everywhere.”

“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”

“How beautiful the sky looked, how blue and calm and deep! How brilliant and majestic was the setting sun! How tenderly shone the distant waters of the Danube! And fairer still were the purpling mountains stretching far away beyond the river, the convent, the mysterious gorges, the pine forests veiled in mist to their summits. ...There all was peace and happiness. 'I should wish for nothing, wish for nothing, for nothing in the world, if only I were there', thought Rostov. 'In myself alone and in that sunshine there is so much happiness'...”

“If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.”

“Life did not stop, and one had to live.”

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”

“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”

“When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.”

“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”

“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

“Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni.”