No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov 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. Anton Chekhov suicide men thinking Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure. Anton Chekhov dues strong knows The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring. Anton Chekhov spring men mean Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields. Anton Chekhov yield eight age I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written. Anton Chekhov annoyed success ideas Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom. Anton Chekhov wisdom made mistake The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection. Anton Chekhov sea sleep lying You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants. Anton Chekhov sleep people thinking A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future! Anton Chekhov future stars beautiful And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. Anton Chekhov blessing wise book I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? Anton Chekhov lilies attractive my-own 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. Anton Chekhov nature strong fall Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner. Anton Chekhov sleep running believe We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of. Anton Chekhov women dog heart The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them. Anton Chekhov understanding unhappy people Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is. Anton Chekhov standards honor ideas Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something. Anton Chekhov respect hate love When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand. Anton Chekhov discord should war Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier. Anton Chekhov creativity animal men Great Jove angry is no longer Jove. Anton Chekhov angry
