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Quotes by Russian Authors
"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul."
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
"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."
"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life."
"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."
"When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive."
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
"In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe."
"The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."
"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."
"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."
"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."
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention."
"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
"Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing. Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."
"I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself."
"They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling. But it's true...I am, in the sense they mean-only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?""What did they mean about you?""Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality."
"And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old."
"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."
"We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
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