Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

View Author

By refusing to accept an immutable higher power that surpasses us, we have filled the void with personal imperatives, and suddenly, our life has become eerie.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

View Author

I'm not afraid to die 'one day', I'm afraid to die today.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

View Author

Precipitation and shallowness are the chronic diseases of the century.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

View Author

A state at war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

View Author

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

View Author

The person who is not internally prepared for violence is always weaker than the oppressor.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

View Author

The less one reads, the more harm what is read does.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

View Author

Madness, true madness, is sorely needed, to see if it cures us of this plague of common sense that has each of us drowning in our own.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

View Author

We should be more suspicious of those who seek reasons for benefiting us than of those who benefit us without seeking reasons.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

View Author

It is weak because it has not doubted enough and has wanted to reach conclusions.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

View Author

A pedant is a stupid person adulterated by study.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

View Author

Language is not the wrapping of thought but thought itself.