Nikolai Gogol Quotes
"Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Soul, Body, May)
"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: God, Land, Man, Respect)
"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Blame)
"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: World)
"It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable."
- Nikolai Gogol
"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Beauty, Will)
"Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Sea)
"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Life, Joy, Past, Will)
"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Experience, Idea, Agriculture, Land, Man)
"They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: First, Man, Thinking)
"The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: May)
"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."
- Nikolai Gogol