"The world is, of course, nothing but our…" — Anton Chekhov
"The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it."
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Anton Chekhov
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246 Quotes by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov has 246 quotes on this site.
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with…
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you…
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every…
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
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I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand…
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means…
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone…
— Sara Blakely
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of…
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The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate…
— William James
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
— Thomas Hobbes
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