To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. – Ivan Turgenev
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my countrys fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! – Ivan Turgenev
Nature creates while destroying, and doesnt care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isnt extinguished, as long as death doesnt lose its rights. – Ivan Turgenev
Deaths an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. – Ivan Turgenev
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi