Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Quote by Anton Chekhov
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
- There is nothing new in art except talent.
- You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
- People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
- Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
- The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
- Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Best Quotes
- Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.
- I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
- Love her now, you will miss her when she turns her back on you.
- I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
- Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.