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Quotes by Russian Authors
"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."
"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole."
"Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought."
"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
"Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil."
"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out."
"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
"In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe."
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead."
"Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature."
"Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."
"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."
"Say what you know, do what you must, come what may."
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?"
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul."
"I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing."
"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
"The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well."
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
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