Anton Chekhov Quote

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.


Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 3, 1892)


Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that all of our problems come from such goals, is left...