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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people....

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people....

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.

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,...

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...

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.

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

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...

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

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,...

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 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...

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...

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?

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity....

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity....