Quotes About Wisdom

Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel towards him any of that strange shyness and antagonism so often felt by children towards grown-up people who 'pretend,' which causes them to suffer as painfully. Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

Ninguém está satisfeito com os bens que possui, mas todos estão satisfeitos com a inteligência que têm.

Böyle i?te, diyordu. Dostumuz Konstantin Dmitriç ne yetenekli bir gençti. Oysa ?imdi nerede o eski Konstantin Dmitriç! O zamanlar bilimi de severdi. Üniversiteden ç?kt???nda insanlara özgü dü?ünceleri vard?. ?imdi ise yeteneklerinin yar?s? kendi kendini aldatmaya, öteki yar?s? da bu aldat??? hakl? göstermeye yönelmi? durumda. ileti?im yay?nlar?. syf :441.

Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.

The kind aunt with whom I lived, herself the purest of beings, always told me that there was nothing she so desired for me as that I should have relations with a married woman: 'Rien ne forme un juene homme, comme une liaison avec une femme comme il faut'.{1}

O lo que yo llamaba racional no lo era tanto como había pensado, o lo que me parecía irracional no lo era tanto como había pensado.

But what's right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us.

A causa della presunzione con la quale parlava nessuno comprese se ciò che aveva detto fosse molto intelligente oppure molto stupido.

That's how it's always done with us, all the wrong way round!' the Russian officers and generals said after the battle of Tarutino, just as people speak now, letting it be felt that some fool somewhere does things that way, the wrong way round, but we would not do things that way. But people who talk like that either do not know what they are talking about or are deliberately deceiving themselves.

Pourquoi injuste ? Il ne nous est pas donné de savoir ce qui est juste ou injuste ! L'humanité s'est toujours trompée et se trompera toujours sur ce sujet.

La razón no ha descubierto que se amase al prójimo, porque eso no es razonable. Constantino Levin

Rational knowledge presented by the learned and wise, denies the meaning of life, but the enormous masses of men, the whole of mankind receive that meaning in irrational knowledge. And that irrational knowledge is faith, that very thing which I could not but reject. It is God, One in Three; the creation in six days; the devils and angels, and all the rest that I cannot accept as long as I retain my reason.

maggot gnaws the cabbage, but it dies before it's done; so the old folks used to say," he added

He would often say the exact opposite of what he had said on a previous occasion, yet both would be right.

Ma tu mi dici: entra nella nostra confraternita e noi ti indicheremo lo scopo della vita, la missione dell'uomo, le leggi che governano il mondo. Ma noi chi siamo? Siamo uomini. Perché voi dovreste sapere tutto? Come mai io soltanto non vedrei quello che vedete voi? Voi vedere sulla terra il regno del bene e della verità, ma io non lo vedo.

Quos vult perdere dementat.

It seemed to him that he had been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to be virtuous.

Urzeczywistnienie to przekona?o go o wiecznej omy?ce, jakiej ulegaj? ludzie, uto?samiaj?c szcz??cie ze spe?nieniem pragnie?.

Prostia vine din înv???tur?

Sta?o si? z nim to, co zawsze dzieje si? z lud?mi, którzy zwracaj? si? do wiedzy nie po to, ?eby odgrywa? w niej rol?: pisa?, dyskutowa?, uczy? innych, lecz zwracaj? si? do wiedzy z bezpo?rednimi, prostymi ?yciowymi pytaniami; nauka odpowiada?a mu na tysi?ce ró?nych bardzo trudnych i zawi?ych pyta?, tylko nie na te pytania, na które szuka? odpowiedzi.

Once admit that human life can be guided by reason, and all possibility of life is annihilated.

Tako ?ine rijetki snažni i dosljedni ljudi. Shvativši svu glupost šale kojoj su oni predmet i shvativši da su blaga umrlih ve?a od blaga živih te da je najbolje od svega ne postojati, tako i ?ine te smjesta završavaju s tom glupom šalom kojim god sredstvom: om?a oko vrata, voda, nož kojim probijaju srce, vlakovi na željezni?kim prugama.

If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a wise man about eternal life: "What will happen to us when this world comes to an end?" He answered, "I do not need the world, and I am not afraid of its end, because I know that my soul is eternal." God

As Euripides once said, 'Those whom God wishes to destroy he first drives mad.