“The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904Related quotes
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
Source: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 8
Book II, Chapter 4, "The Perfect Penitent"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: He [God] lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.
Connections (1979), 9 - Countdown
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Context: Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.
"An Odyssey of the North" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6
“They gave us the language but it is only we who know how to use it”
The Black Album, Uncle Asif, Chapter One, (1995).