Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
-
-
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
Justice 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 SOLZHENITSYN -
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN