Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKYEverybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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