Anton Chekhov - God Quotes

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

Anton Chekhov
The Lord God has given us vast forests, immense fields, wide horizons; surely we ought to be giants, living in such a country as this.

Anton Chekhov
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

Anton Chekhov
Between 'God exists' and 'There is no God' lies a whole enormous field which a true sage has great difficulty in crossing. But a Russian knows only one of these two extremes and the middle between them doesn't interest him…A good man's indifference is as good as any religion.

Anton Chekhov
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Anton Chekhov
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

Anton Chekhov
An enormously vast field lies between God exists and there is no God. The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

Anton Chekhov
And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

Anton Chekhov