She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.
Leo Tolstoyno disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine -- not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs. This simple thought could not occur to the doctors (as it cannot occur to a wizard that he is unable to work his charms) because the business of their lives was to cure, and they received money for it and had spent the best years of their lives on that business. But above all that thought was kept out of their minds by the fact that they saw they were really useful [...] Their usefulness did not depend on making the patient swallow substances for the most part harmful (the harm was scarcely perceptible because they were given in small doses) but they were useful, necessary, and indispensable because they satisfied a mental need of the invalid and those who loved her -- and that is why there are, and always will be, pseudo-healers, wise women, homoeopaths, and allopaths. They satisfied that eternal human need for hope of relief, for sympathy, and that something should be done, which is felt by those who are suffering.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: health medicine illness health-care
Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: humanity peace war
Lihat dan kau tahu, jika aku ada di jalan yang salah dan kita tak akan pernah bertemu lagi
Leo TolstoyDon’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?"
Vronksy
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."
Vronsky
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."
- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
Stichwörter: love
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed."
Alexis Alexandrovich
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time.
Leo TolstoyСколько бы раз опыт и рассуждение ни показывали человеку, что в тех же условиях, с тем же характером он сделает то же самое, что и прежде, он, в тысячный раз приступая в тех же условиях, с тем же характером к действию, всегда кончавшемуся одинаково, несомненно чувствует себя столь же уверенным в том, что он может поступать, как он захочет, как и до опыта. Всякий человек, дикий и мыслитель, как бы неотразимо ему ни доказывали рассуждение и опыт то, что невозможно представить себе два поступка в одних и тех же условиях, чувствует, что без этого бессмысленного представления (составляющего сущность свободы) он не может себе представить жизни. Он чувствует, что, как бы это ни было невозможно, это есть; ибо без этого представления свободы он не только не понимал бы жизни, но не мог бы жить ни одного мгновения.
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