Quotes by Thinking I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done. Aleksandar Hemon philosophicalshould-havethinking I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda. Aleksandar Hemon governmentcountrythinking I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them. Aleksandar Hemon peoplewaythinking Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language. Aleksandar Hemon humanitystoriesthinking I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not, to think of it as sovereign because you're not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be. Aleksandar Hemon spacegivingthinking I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it. Aleksandar Hemon writingyearsthinking I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking. Aleksandar Hemon morningfallthinking There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write. Aleksandar Hemon writingrunningthinking Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it. Aleksandar Hemon ableartistthinking I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein. But, naturally, I also feel uncomfortable due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction. Aleksander Kwasniewski mass-destructioniraqthinking So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before. Aleksander Kwasniewski importantpresidentthinking So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe. Aleksander Kwasniewski perspectiveyearsthinking The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wisdomschoolthinking You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn viewsbookthinking You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn prisonsoulthinking The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spirituallyingthinking Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mudfeetthinking It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn handsfallthinking I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn responsibilitywritingthinking Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn catlovethinking«99100101102103104105106107108109»
