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

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to...

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to...

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...

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all

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...

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,...

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....

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but...

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but...

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep...

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep...