The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOwn only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMany of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThat which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: humanism
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynShould one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: cultural-decay
The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: contentment attitude
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
Tags: evil religion heart good
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