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 SOLZHENITSYNWe have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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