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Quotes by Russian Authors
"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?"
"I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level."
"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
"Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process."
"The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty."
"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism."
"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
"Every cook has to learn how to govern the state."
"A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws."
"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished."
"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual."
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."
"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
"In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons."
"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."
"You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know."
"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
"Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand."
"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."
"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
"Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea."
"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."
"The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger."
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