Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNReligion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNToday when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNYou only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNJustice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWe have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFirst would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNTalent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOwn only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNBlow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIn our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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