in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels. They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a dead end or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.
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Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.
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In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness. The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself. This is what I think about Russian suicides.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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