23 Quotes by Leo Nikolaevich

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

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!

We will do almost anything for the poor man, anything but get off his back

Without knowing why I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.

The more everybody lives, the more life reveals to him; what was unknown becomes known.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

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.