It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish…

Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Emotion Quotes, Mistakes Quotes, Selfishness Quotes, Truth Quotes

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the...

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life,...

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life,...

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the...

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the...

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in...

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in...

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing...

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing...

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long...

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long...

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art...

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art...

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to...

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to...

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why...

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why...

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come...

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come...

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere...

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere...

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and...

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and...