Spiritual Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

12 Spiritual quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s brief spiritual notes carry the weight of his moral convictions, giving readers a compact yet powerful window into his inner world.

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Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest…

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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

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... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful…

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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the…

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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we…

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European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their…

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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of…

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I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,…

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Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom…

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The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in…

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The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.…

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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

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“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer…

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press…

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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

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Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by…

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“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken…

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When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the…

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“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;…

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Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

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The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,…

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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

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