Anton Chekhov on Mind
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #148149: "It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul."
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #95686: "People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share."
6 Quotes by Anton Chekhov on Mind
"It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul."
"People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share."
"Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape."
"If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity."
"The bourgeoisie loves so-called “positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy."
"In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides."