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Quotes by Russian Authors
"Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought."
10
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
7
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
7
"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
6
"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out."
5
"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."
5
"Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature."
5
"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
5
"I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms."
4
"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."
4
"I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova."
4
"Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil."
4
"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead."
4
"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."
4
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
4
"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?"
4
"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
3
"I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing."
3
"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
3
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
3
"And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old."
3
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
3
"Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
3
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
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