An engineer cannot participate in irrationality. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn A hard life improves the vision. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn hard-life hardship vision You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn prison soul thinking A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn storm break tree Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn human-nature earth faces The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cutting heart inspirational ... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn violent destruction understanding Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn blessing happy attitude I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn united-states war world We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn voice dog long If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn endure sacrifice mistake When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn panic russia west Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn voting party people A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn hurricanes ocean water My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn light wish brain The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn substitutes literature art Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn artist names art What a force is laughter. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn force laughter 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 spiritual lying thinking The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn heritage reform names Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn abundance talent doe
