I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.